Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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JERE. Oh, sir, for that, sir, 'tis my chief talent: I'm as secret as the head of Nilus. TATT. Ay? Who's he, though? A privy counsellor? JERE. O ignorance! [Aside.] A cunning Egyptian, sir, that with his arms would overrun the country, yet nobody could ever find out his head-quarters. TATT. Close dog! A good whoremaster, I warrant him: --the time draws nigh, Jeremy. Angelica will be veiled like a nun, and I must be hooded like a friar, ha, Jeremy? JERE. Ay, sir; hooded like a hawk, to seize at first sight upon the quarry. It is the whim of my master's madness to be so dressed, and she is so in love with him she'll comply with anything to please him. Poor lady, I'm sure she'll have reason to pray for me, when she finds what a happy exchange she has made, between a madman and so accomplished a gentleman. TATT. Ay, faith, so she will, Jeremy: you're a good friend to her, poor creature. I swear I do it hardly so much in consideration of myself as compassion to her. JERE. 'Tis an act of charity, sir, to save a fine woman with thirty thousand pound from throwing herself away. TATT. So 'tis, faith; I might have saved several others in my time, |
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